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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






2. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






3. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






4. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






5. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






6. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






7. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






8. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






9. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






10. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






11. Transit of Venus on June 9.






12. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






13. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






14. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






15. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






16. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






17. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






18. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






19. Triple conjunction Mars






20. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






21. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






22. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






23. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






24. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






25. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






26. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






27. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






28. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






29. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






30. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






31. Triple conjunction Mars






32. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






33. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






34. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






35. Triple conjunction Mars






36. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






37. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






38. December 10






39. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






40. December 10






41. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






42. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






43. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






44. Triple conjunction Mars






45. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






46. Transit of Mercury.






47. 2019 Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan. 2019 Cricket World Cup to be held in England.






48. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






49. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






50. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.